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they're not going to vote for obama. chris: what do the obama people have on romney really? they talk about bain capital. everybody knows that's fair game. go after that. the mormon thing, since it is a new religion for the presidency, we haven't had a mormon president yet and he is a very religious guy, are they going to play that? i've heard people say things like, if you even say the word "weird" you're saying mormon. but does use strange language and he said i read "the new york times" cover story about this whole dirty ad campaign about jeremiah wright and read it on the aircraft. he talks like a conehead. like he's speaking earthling. i don't know how you run against a guy like that. is that a way of saying he's mormon? >> nobody has said aircraft in a long, long time. it will have to be very subtle and perhaps it will be the same way they treated mccain's age. there will be some way of just sort of showing him to be out of touch. chris: wagon train somewhere? how do you think they're going to go negative? what's a dirty version of jeremiah wright coming from the obama
they're not going to vote for obama. chris: what do the obama people have on romney really? they talk about bain capital. everybody knows that's fair game. go after that. the mormon thing, since it is a new religion for the presidency, we haven't had a mormon president yet and he is a very religious guy, are they going to play that? i've heard people say things like, if you even say the word "weird" you're saying mormon. but does use strange language and he said i read "the new...
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he was drifting toward obama anyway. chris: can you imagine anybody saying to ted kennedy anything slightly racist? is it believable that was his intense, to diminish barack obama as someone who wasn't racially okayo run for president. you say ted kennedy believed it. >> there's no question that he was trying to diminish barack obama, whether it was racial, i don't know. but ted kennedy had very high antenna on racial matters and i think he was suspicious of the clinton anyway because some of these things i talked about before that he thought race was getting injected already. chris: one great thing, after the initial splash of bad news for barack obama about the tapes of reverend wright, we saw -- we all saw him with the comments in his sermons. barack obama saw that and sat down with wright and tried to calm him down and say cool it. then wright goes to the national press club and says my old friend is now just another phony politician pretending not to believe my beliefs. we didn't realize this was a two-step problem
he was drifting toward obama anyway. chris: can you imagine anybody saying to ted kennedy anything slightly racist? is it believable that was his intense, to diminish barack obama as someone who wasn't racially okayo run for president. you say ted kennedy believed it. >> there's no question that he was trying to diminish barack obama, whether it was racial, i don't know. but ted kennedy had very high antenna on racial matters and i think he was suspicious of the clinton anyway because...
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>> i think michelle obama will become a bigger story in 2010. i don't want to get her in trouble and i don't know -- chs: positively? >> positively. cause she is a person who has changed her image to be in the background, to be the hostess, she's done a terrific job at it, brilliant job at it. i think obama is going to be in the kind of political trouble he's going to have to go to the person who is really, really his number one advisor and it's not rahm emanuel, it's the lady from the harvard law school, the lady from the harvard law school, michelle obama. chris: your thoughts? >> i'm hearing a couple interesting things. one shocker is that some democrats are thinking of jumping ship and changing parties. chris: any names? >> that's all i can say about that. the other thing is -- chris: what part of the country? >> i can't say. one more thing -- in fact i'm probably in big trouble already. the other thing is that some of the senators, these senators who have been -- chris: is arlen specter going to flip back? >> there you go. to, but these peo
>> i think michelle obama will become a bigger story in 2010. i don't want to get her in trouble and i don't know -- chs: positively? >> positively. cause she is a person who has changed her image to be in the background, to be the hostess, she's done a terrific job at it, brilliant job at it. i think obama is going to be in the kind of political trouble he's going to have to go to the person who is really, really his number one advisor and it's not rahm emanuel, it's the lady from...
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these factors were happening long before obama took office. the period between 2000 asheds 2007 is the weakest job growth we have seen since the grade depression. chris: has the white housen covering up? they said we're on a fast train to recovery. every month is going to get better, yet always lower than expected, the recovery numbers. >> they thought back in december when they got the tax cut deal in the lame duck session and it had a bunch of stimulus built into it like unemployment insurance and payroll taxes. chris: the bush tax cuts, keeping them. >> they thought they would get a nice steady ramp through 2011 that would help the faltering recovery take flight. by early 2012, things would be off and running and solid. they have obviously been dealt a severe blow. they have been surprised that what they thought was going to happen has not happened. chris: housing, so many problems out there, they hit especially people 50 and older. we have a report by the association of retired people that basically says that a quarter of the people, 50 an
these factors were happening long before obama took office. the period between 2000 asheds 2007 is the weakest job growth we have seen since the grade depression. chris: has the white housen covering up? they said we're on a fast train to recovery. every month is going to get better, yet always lower than expected, the recovery numbers. >> they thought back in december when they got the tax cut deal in the lame duck session and it had a bunch of stimulus built into it like unemployment...
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is it politically salient to say that barack obama is taking money out of medicare to fund obama care. yes, it is. chris: a real debate for v.p. and president. are the people i chicago who are worried about everything out there and thinking ahead of everything, are they worried about the older guy 69, going against the younger guy 27 years younger? >> i think they're definitely worried about that. it's going to be really interesting with the democratic convention coming up this week. biden is not speaking on the same night as obama. in fact, he is going to be presenting obama to the group. he doesn't have his own night as paul ryan did last week with the republican show. he is not going to be in the attack mode this week. bill clinton the night before, birdie is talking more about the obama legacy, the last four years. i know this guy as a president. you're going to see him slipping over right after that and then going out on to the campaign trail and taking on that traditional attack. >> if you go to ryan, he is a number cruncher. he might intimidate birdie? i don't think so. this is
is it politically salient to say that barack obama is taking money out of medicare to fund obama care. yes, it is. chris: a real debate for v.p. and president. are the people i chicago who are worried about everything out there and thinking ahead of everything, are they worried about the older guy 69, going against the younger guy 27 years younger? >> i think they're definitely worried about that. it's going to be really interesting with the democratic convention coming up this week....
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>> i any obama say positive, optimistic guy. he fundamentally wants the american people to believe and feel like they are part of this lurching, beautiful democracy that we are all moving forward and that's very much how he's going to move forward the next few years. chris: do they think they can win this thing? >> they absolutely do. they're feeling very possive. chris: department the -- despite the numbers he's getting? >> yes. he made speeches to democratic partisan fundraisers this year. he did not go on the attack. he did not do the usual campaign style. chris: are they happy with the outlook for the candidates? can they beat the field they're looking at this year? >> one thing, well, they're extraordinarily concerned about the economy and the things going on in the middle east that could cause a spike in oil prices that could make it impossible for him to win. but the other is they say you have got to be kidding, our guy has so much more talent in his little finger than any of these and he will run them over. chris: there'
>> i any obama say positive, optimistic guy. he fundamentally wants the american people to believe and feel like they are part of this lurching, beautiful democracy that we are all moving forward and that's very much how he's going to move forward the next few years. chris: do they think they can win this thing? >> they absolutely do. they're feeling very possive. chris: department the -- despite the numbers he's getting? >> yes. he made speeches to democratic partisan...
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. >> it's bigger for obama than chief justice roberts who's appointed for life. >> if barack obama gets re-elected, this law will become real in 2014 and it will be huge for him. if he doesn't get re-elected the republicans will repeal it in toto or in part. and they'll pick it apart over the course of the next congress. chris: and bring the senate -- whoever beats them, if romney beats them he will probably win the senate and have a lot of mower. >> if obama wants to make this he has to win in november. chris: the court's rightward tilt has been going on for decades. we often look at saturday night live here as a mirror of american politics. and in -- s.n.l.'s very first season on the air, the comedic giants, john belushi, chetchy chase, and dan aykroyd, had great material when the warren burger supreme court upheld a state's right to criminalize private sexual behavior. >> you love it. >> don't tell me what i love. >> oh, go tell it to the supreme court. >> oh, my god! [laughter] who are you? >> we're the supreme court. >> in that case, i'm wanda phillips and i would like you to meet
. >> it's bigger for obama than chief justice roberts who's appointed for life. >> if barack obama gets re-elected, this law will become real in 2014 and it will be huge for him. if he doesn't get re-elected the republicans will repeal it in toto or in part. and they'll pick it apart over the course of the next congress. chris: and bring the senate -- whoever beats them, if romney beats them he will probably win the senate and have a lot of mower. >> if obama wants to make...
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and that obama luck may hold when he runs again in 2012. modren persidents have one strike in terms unless they face a commanding opponent. john, he has been lucky? >> he has been lucky, but one exception, hillary clinton, who is a rival when he ran for the nomination. right now, it's fascinating. you think of obama's approval rating has fallen and yet over the course of the first 18 months, unlike in past presidential elections, you don't see republicans out there. there have been two, mitt romney and pawlenty. and the white house have said, couldn't we be lucky enough to end up with another opponent who is just as lame as the ones we faced in the past. chris: he may get a little bit of a break. i'm looking at some of these races. nevada, he thought he may have had a safe seat. harry reid facing sharro ankle. so he may not lose the senate. >> the appetite for republicans and the environment is good for republicans out there. got to get 10 seats to take back the senate, but haven't field the the best seats. nevada, that has been a disaster
and that obama luck may hold when he runs again in 2012. modren persidents have one strike in terms unless they face a commanding opponent. john, he has been lucky? >> he has been lucky, but one exception, hillary clinton, who is a rival when he ran for the nomination. right now, it's fascinating. you think of obama's approval rating has fallen and yet over the course of the first 18 months, unlike in past presidential elections, you don't see republicans out there. there have been two,...
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. >> what about president obama, something from his inauguration, perhaps. >> what we have done is we have collected his campaign because we know how important this is, and what we will do, at the end of his tenure, we will ask him, tell me what represents america to you? for me, president obama is definitely going to have an important place in this museum. >> what about areas of rec reconciliati reconciliation? i thin aboll legs, abolition, do you think it's -- >> i think it's important for that story to be told. for this generation and the generations yet unborn, to see how it happened, how we resolved the question of slavery in those great debates and what abraham lincoln did when he signed the emancipation proclamation. >> we know the struggles are still real and the issues are still so fraught. here we have affirmative action that is yet again going to be looked at by the united states supreme court. are you troubled by that decision? >> i'm troubled to some degree that the united states supreme court is going to revisit the question of affirmative action. affirmative action is s
. >> what about president obama, something from his inauguration, perhaps. >> what we have done is we have collected his campaign because we know how important this is, and what we will do, at the end of his tenure, we will ask him, tell me what represents america to you? for me, president obama is definitely going to have an important place in this museum. >> what about areas of rec reconciliati reconciliation? i thin aboll legs, abolition, do you think it's -- >> i...
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the tea party may want to beat obama enough to compromise toward him. and history tells us that republicans nearly always nominate the early front runner from nixon to reagan to both bushes, dolan mccain. nora, that's a strong pattern, but this week it seems like he did really forge himself into the lead, into the front runner position. >> no doubt. he is the presumptive front runner and going to have a lot of money in his campaign war chest and got out of the debate unscathed. but his record on jobs as governor of massachusetts deserves scrutiny and this white house is going to point out. in his first year as governor of massachusetts, massachusetts ranked dead last. during his entire tenure, jobs growth was less than 1%. the national average was 5%. romney wants to make the case that he he is a jobs growth president, his numbers are weak. chris: we aren't getting out of this recession and unemployment is ticking up. romney seems to be in the logical choice position. >> he is being disciplined by staying on the economic message. if you try to get him o
the tea party may want to beat obama enough to compromise toward him. and history tells us that republicans nearly always nominate the early front runner from nixon to reagan to both bushes, dolan mccain. nora, that's a strong pattern, but this week it seems like he did really forge himself into the lead, into the front runner position. >> no doubt. he is the presumptive front runner and going to have a lot of money in his campaign war chest and got out of the debate unscathed. but his...
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chris: we have to talk about barack obama. hisvapprol as president took a 2009 nosedive, do you recall this? in the summer of those health care town halls. >> you want to be led out of here, you're welcome to go. now, wait a minute, now, wait a minute, now wait a minute, now wait a minute -- wait, wait, wait a minute. >> do you all think that you're persuading people when you shout out like that? beg your pardon? you don't trust me? chris: you saw arlen specter trying to deal with it, but every politician knows how dangerous those moments can be. >> it can get out of control. all those clips showed the politicians seemingly out of control. that's never a good image. >> but then we have to draw a conclusion that were all town hall meetings like this or just the ones that were in the cable loop that were played over and over again? >> they continue to play it. part of the reason it goes viral so quickly is not totally out of the blue. it's picking up on a public dissatisfaction anyway. so you have people replaying things because
chris: we have to talk about barack obama. hisvapprol as president took a 2009 nosedive, do you recall this? in the summer of those health care town halls. >> you want to be led out of here, you're welcome to go. now, wait a minute, now, wait a minute, now wait a minute, now wait a minute -- wait, wait, wait a minute. >> do you all think that you're persuading people when you shout out like that? beg your pardon? you don't trust me? chris: you saw arlen specter trying to deal with...
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obama and romney. jason, let me start with you. this is -- >> hm. >> get to argue his point. >> that's not this show. >> i get the last word on it. >> is there any better fodder than politics? do you enjoy it? >> it is interesting. i would see kmun indicately, like everything is paying attention to the same thing so it feels like you're making inside jokes or things that are on the tip of their tongue or mind that we get to portray as the people. i would say that's where politics usually helps. having been here nine years and gone through this will be the third election season, it feels fairly repetitive as far as the rhetoric and the circus behind it. has gotten more circus focused nowadays and starts earlier like christmas shows start earlier. >> what about personality romney isn't lighting up as an exciting figure. >> i think it makes it -- >> even better? >> i don't know if it does make it better. i would prefer he do something scandalous or something stupid as opposed to boring. to play boring is kind of boring. last week we d
obama and romney. jason, let me start with you. this is -- >> hm. >> get to argue his point. >> that's not this show. >> i get the last word on it. >> is there any better fodder than politics? do you enjoy it? >> it is interesting. i would see kmun indicately, like everything is paying attention to the same thing so it feels like you're making inside jokes or things that are on the tip of their tongue or mind that we get to portray as the people. i would say...
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they heard from the first lady, michelle obama, former first lady, laura bush, jill biden and all of the women justices of the supreme court, among others. then it was maria's turn and it turned emotionals she talked about her own mother. the sister of the late president kennedy, eunice shriver. >> so a few months ago when i was at home in hyannis port with my brothers i went to visit my mother's grave for the first time since her funeral. i found myself saying, you know, mommy, this first lady gig is all coming to an end and i'm trying to figu out what to do with the rest of my life. and all of a sudden, i started to sob. weeping so uncontrollably that i couldn't catch my breath. until i realed i was waiting, waiting for my mother's voice, trying so hard to hear it. and then i remembered sitting there when a dear friend told me, some months before, she said, you know, maria, it's not true that you don't have your mother's wisdom to guide you anymore. she said, you have your mother's wisdom within you. and then i heard a voice and i heard it very clearsly. ria, right now it's okay fo
they heard from the first lady, michelle obama, former first lady, laura bush, jill biden and all of the women justices of the supreme court, among others. then it was maria's turn and it turned emotionals she talked about her own mother. the sister of the late president kennedy, eunice shriver. >> so a few months ago when i was at home in hyannis port with my brothers i went to visit my mother's grave for the first time since her funeral. i found myself saying, you know, mommy, this...
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obama is not that popular for obama and to the extent it's popular with the base, the base will be mad at the court and rally around it. from romney's point of view for the reasons gloria and i were saying earlier, there's not political mileage in it for romney and have it off the table and allow romney to have discussions on this issue isn't where he wants to be. >> it kills me we go back to square one and this could be struck down altogether and you think of the political capital wasted since the economic crisis and everything sense and the uncertainty from businesses and all that. chris: that's what people want, to go back to square one. >> it leaves us with a huge structural deficit problem that does nothing to address the source of this in the first place. chris: that's the big picture. all right. let me ask you, david, what the court is likely to do. they can't avoid the individual mandate as an issue, can they? >> the only way to avoid it is it they do a technicality and say we can't rule on it yet because it hasn't taken place and they could do that and kick it in the future. i
obama is not that popular for obama and to the extent it's popular with the base, the base will be mad at the court and rally around it. from romney's point of view for the reasons gloria and i were saying earlier, there's not political mileage in it for romney and have it off the table and allow romney to have discussions on this issue isn't where he wants to be. >> it kills me we go back to square one and this could be struck down altogether and you think of the political capital wasted...
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there is a real challenge here for obama, too. the way he has governed so far is to lay back, let other people make the proposals and then try and do the final negotiations. it's one of the least successful aspects of his presidency. so he has to lay out in much more clear terms than he has so far what he wants to do in the next four years. chris: he has a challenge, too. when we come back, the big question of the week for us, the summer of 1972, 40 years ago the watergate break-in, the massacre of israeli athletes at the houstonnish olympics, we were wearing mutton chop side burns and bell bottoms. chris: welcome back. 340 years ago the summer of 1972, the watergate break-in, the massacre of israeli athletes at the munich olympics, the mcgovern campaign and a lot of bad clothes. this week's big question -- what is the lasting effect from the summer of 1972. john harris, the cultural question this week. >> i think the emergence of institution press power which had its hey day in 1972 and 20 years after. we see its sun set. chris:
there is a real challenge here for obama, too. the way he has governed so far is to lay back, let other people make the proposals and then try and do the final negotiations. it's one of the least successful aspects of his presidency. so he has to lay out in much more clear terms than he has so far what he wants to do in the next four years. chris: he has a challenge, too. when we come back, the big question of the week for us, the summer of 1972, 40 years ago the watergate break-in, the...
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the obama family. michelle obama and the kids and the dog. and, by the way, the president as family guy himself. hillary clinton, the secretary of state. sonya sotomayor, raised in the bronx with a dream that came true when she was picked for the supreme court. finally, the big banks, which had huge years despite the financial collapse. katty, best year? >> i'm going to go for sonya sotomayor. no downside for her. every woman is happy. every latino is happy in the country. a very, very good year for her. with the other there's some downside. >> i hate to say it. the banks. they won. $50 billion in profits this year. unbelievable. 2 1/2 times their largest yea ever. >> but they're hated. >> i'm going to say michelle obama and the family. she has maintained the role as mom in chief, and highlighting military families and healthy eating and has not been out there that much. chris: trips to a lot of bases. >> i'll go with michelle obama, too. the banks had an awfully good year. but michelle obama, think about the fact that in july or august of 20
the obama family. michelle obama and the kids and the dog. and, by the way, the president as family guy himself. hillary clinton, the secretary of state. sonya sotomayor, raised in the bronx with a dream that came true when she was picked for the supreme court. finally, the big banks, which had huge years despite the financial collapse. katty, best year? >> i'm going to go for sonya sotomayor. no downside for her. every woman is happy. every latino is happy in the country. a very, very...
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barack obama stood alone at arlington national cemetery. >> brotherhood, sacrifice, love of country. >> and it is my fervent prayer that we may honor the memory of the fallen by living out those ideals every day of our lives. >>> the commander in chief ordered changes at the pentagon. army general martin dempsey to be change an of the joint chiefs, a new deputy and a new army chief of staff to carry out obama policies. >> reporter: >> from bringing our troops home from iraq to beginning to reduce forces in afghanistan this summer. >> reporter: across town a campaign-style bus, brought sarah pail toin see the declaration of independence and constitution and to get on tv. >> and to remind ourselves we don't need to fundamentally transform america, we need to restore what's good about america. >> reporter: palin is raising her profile and not saying if she'll run for president. palin's rival, minnesota congresswoman and tea party fire brand michele bachmann went to new hampshire. if all veterans would stand right now that we may rightly pay our respects. >> bachmann declared soon. >> th
barack obama stood alone at arlington national cemetery. >> brotherhood, sacrifice, love of country. >> and it is my fervent prayer that we may honor the memory of the fallen by living out those ideals every day of our lives. >>> the commander in chief ordered changes at the pentagon. army general martin dempsey to be change an of the joint chiefs, a new deputy and a new army chief of staff to carry out obama policies. >> reporter: >> from bringing our troops...
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is november a referendum for obama? >> november is a choice election, and the reality is i listen to john talk about the agenda in the senate. the republicans have been the job killers in the senate. in essence, they have used the filibuster in an unprecedented way in the nation's history to stop progress on everything we have tried to do. so as we are trying to help the private sector grow jobs by giving them tax incentives, net operating laws, bonus appreciation, incentives to hire people, they have said no, no, no, no. the problem is, in this choice election, it will be far less than the president. it will be about whether or not we go back to the bush economic policies, the policies that john kyle, the number two republican in the senate said -- >> you just heard your colleague from the house say, look, it's going to be perceived as a referendum on obama. >> no, i think what chris said, at the end of the day, the results, whatever they are, positive or negative, may be viewed that way. but when john kyle says you do
is november a referendum for obama? >> november is a choice election, and the reality is i listen to john talk about the agenda in the senate. the republicans have been the job killers in the senate. in essence, they have used the filibuster in an unprecedented way in the nation's history to stop progress on everything we have tried to do. so as we are trying to help the private sector grow jobs by giving them tax incentives, net operating laws, bonus appreciation, incentives to hire...
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this is not the last we've heard of anti-obama-care. chris: they'll use it against mitt rney at the solar plexus of mitt roey. when we return, tell me something i don't know. [ male announcer ] myn needed an mba to turn his technogy into a business. so he chose a university where e faculty average over 14 yes of experience in their field.. to help him turn a tsis into a business plan and accelerate the path between ideas.and actions. my name is myron sullivan, i'm developing a robotic system to clean up oil spills, and i am a phoix. [ male announcer ] imagine what a business gree can do for you. wi four northern virginia locatis, one is closethan you think. here's what you should be watching: your cable bill. because you could be paying y too much. upgradto verizon fios and get tv, inrnet and phone for just $99.99 a moh for a year. plus this special bos: over 25 hbo and cinemax channels free f 3 months. there's no tm contract required. you can cancel anytime with no early terminatiofee. with fios, you get superior picture quality, more
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and how did barack obama? chris: every african-american i know has come up to me in the last couple of weeks and said something about this guy trump. >> i got stopped at a train station the other way. chris: there were suspicions about some people. >> this was the 2008 campaign we were afraid was going to happen. all this innuendo, the racial coding, the questioning. what's this college application all about? it's about did he take the place of a more deserving white kid? that's the subtle undertone. this is the ugly campaign. trump is going to get out of this in june once his celebrity apprentice is over and he'll leave all this rubble around for everyone else to pick up. in the meantime there's a lot of anger directed back now in obama's favor because of this humiliation that the office of the presidency has been put through. >> trump put hirms in the same conversation with barack obama in a split screen. there aren't enough real estate deals in the world to give him that moment. so a lot of this was purely
and how did barack obama? chris: every african-american i know has come up to me in the last couple of weeks and said something about this guy trump. >> i got stopped at a train station the other way. chris: there were suspicions about some people. >> this was the 2008 campaign we were afraid was going to happen. all this innuendo, the racial coding, the questioning. what's this college application all about? it's about did he take the place of a more deserving white kid? that's the...
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who wouldn't have loved being raised like bill clinton and barack obama? talk about love. and finally, "newsweek" for sale . time marches on, but now "newsweek" is for sale. are the new media snuffing out the old for good? [captioning made possible by nbc universal] i'm chris matthews. welcome to the show. cynthia tucker, kathleen parker writes for "the washington post," and john heilemann is national political correspondent for new york mag zeen and co-author of the bestseller, "game change." look at the stock market, if you can. bad times are causing a shudder about the country's future. in some places there's resentment, a real uprising over illegal immigration. some sense that we have lost control of our nationhood. it spurred arizona's crackdown. >> these folks take our jobs away from us. you go to a job se today, you don't see a white face, you don't see a black face. all you see are these brown faces. chris: that same outrage was a factor in the british elections this week, with an influx of migrants from europe. the brits are riled. remember this? >> you don't say
who wouldn't have loved being raised like bill clinton and barack obama? talk about love. and finally, "newsweek" for sale . time marches on, but now "newsweek" is for sale. are the new media snuffing out the old for good? [captioning made possible by nbc universal] i'm chris matthews. welcome to the show. cynthia tucker, kathleen parker writes for "the washington post," and john heilemann is national political correspondent for new york mag zeen and co-author of...
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bush and barack obama managed a transfer of power. it's by political scientist and professor martha joint kumar. martha welcome to "press pass." >> thank you for having us. >> we'll talk about that part of your studies later. so the book "before the oath," it's interesting you're focusing on this transition. historically it might be the smoothest transition of one president to another from two different parties in our modern history. >> it was very very good transition. and i think one of the -- one of the reasons why was all the attention that president bush and his team and the white house and the administration the attention they put onto an early preparation out. >> this was two big lessons that focused the bush administration on this. number one was how short the transition was, because of bush v. gore but then 9/11 the aftermath of that and the whole concern about where the seat of power would be at any given moment and this is what focused josh bolton didn't it? >> it did. so president bush talked to josh bolton, the chief of s
bush and barack obama managed a transfer of power. it's by political scientist and professor martha joint kumar. martha welcome to "press pass." >> thank you for having us. >> we'll talk about that part of your studies later. so the book "before the oath," it's interesting you're focusing on this transition. historically it might be the smoothest transition of one president to another from two different parties in our modern history. >> it was very very...
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obama doing a negative campaign. he's got an ad out about romney and the flip-flop and what we have heard. it's almost pure negativity. romney is trying to appeal to moderates and women, which is a bipartisan ad saying i don't care if it's a republican or democrat idea, i'm for that. you know, he has -- it's not who he is or what his policies are. i regard it as a campaign that's not addressed these issues. they are finishing as badly as they started. >> i disagree, david. i think the trust issue links with the economic issue. it's a product. like if you are selling the car, you want air-conditioning, i'll give you that. you want rich, remember all that, i'll give you that. romney is saying you want that, i'll give you that. you want sen tryst, i'll give you that. the auto rescue is a good example where he was against it. in the debate, trying to suggest he was for it. it's entirely appropriate that the auto rescue has been so important to obama doing so well in ohio. it's a choice. either government should sit by an
obama doing a negative campaign. he's got an ad out about romney and the flip-flop and what we have heard. it's almost pure negativity. romney is trying to appeal to moderates and women, which is a bipartisan ad saying i don't care if it's a republican or democrat idea, i'm for that. you know, he has -- it's not who he is or what his policies are. i regard it as a campaign that's not addressed these issues. they are finishing as badly as they started. >> i disagree, david. i think the...
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what does this mean for president obama, do you see it differently? >> if he gets this done, it is historic. i think it's historically bad and that there would be a real price to pay for it november but there's no doubt the way they have pushed this bill through will have a long-term effect not only on our health care and economy but also on the future of washington, for someone who ran as a post partisan this has been a partisan process. ten years from now the discussion on the roundtable about why is the senate now just like the house in terms of the civil discourse and the lack of bipartisanship, and you know, the polizing nature of it, we'll look back when they did health care got rid of the 60-vote margin and the senate lives by a simple majority rule. that has a long-term impact as well as negative. >> chuck todd, you studied the polling. you're involved with the polling. left, right and center the american people expected more from washington than this. >> they did. clearly the issue of p polarization is frustrating especially in the middle. on
what does this mean for president obama, do you see it differently? >> if he gets this done, it is historic. i think it's historically bad and that there would be a real price to pay for it november but there's no doubt the way they have pushed this bill through will have a long-term effect not only on our health care and economy but also on the future of washington, for someone who ran as a post partisan this has been a partisan process. ten years from now the discussion on the...
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chris: president obama's smart politics is go to the center. you've worked for president bush as a speech writer. what do you think this fits together? you have tea party people behind -- they said they have a blow torch behind the back of john boehner forcing him off to the cliff. and you and i know regular republicans who get elected year after year tend to be compromisers. >> i agree that barack obama has played this very well. i think he has a terrible budget record. he went into this negotiations taking the initial republican stand, 33 billion in cuts. that cut the legs out from under the republicans, made him look like the moderator but fed that division between the two participates to have republican party. one part the pressure freshmen but also leaders like pence and michelle bachman, who want to establish themselves as rebel leaders and set them against every committee chairman who thought this was a pretty good deal, even at the beginning of the debate. >> here's the thing that john boehner understands that a lot of his new members d
chris: president obama's smart politics is go to the center. you've worked for president bush as a speech writer. what do you think this fits together? you have tea party people behind -- they said they have a blow torch behind the back of john boehner forcing him off to the cliff. and you and i know regular republicans who get elected year after year tend to be compromisers. >> i agree that barack obama has played this very well. i think he has a terrible budget record. he went into this...
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it reminds me so much of the obama administration. the idea this young people lead the -- leave the city and go to the country and rediscover innocence is not new. every now and then there's some sort of organizing icon principle event. and obama has been that. he's the person, the personification, the same kind of movement. chris: i got a question from trish rage -- regan. and steve schmitt saw what was coming and he said i realized we were running against a continuation of the kennedy campaign, the good part drove obama to the white house. what do you think? >> i don't think that. i think that obama was able to harness this new generation of people that actually didn't have so many ties to woodstock. so some of the woodstock generation and the issues of that, were were put aside in favor of these. >> >> they were anti-establishment, anti-to the -- to the bush administration represented that mentality that was sort of part of -- >> it is a new version of that because it wasn't harkinning back to a very -- a very new version with the
it reminds me so much of the obama administration. the idea this young people lead the -- leave the city and go to the country and rediscover innocence is not new. every now and then there's some sort of organizing icon principle event. and obama has been that. he's the person, the personification, the same kind of movement. chris: i got a question from trish rage -- regan. and steve schmitt saw what was coming and he said i realized we were running against a continuation of the kennedy...
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obama is the president. he has to be the one that goes out to people and says i am starting to make it better. i know that you are still hurting. >> 2 1/2 years of actual -- the point is also, chris, on this, how many leaders have been re-elected in the west over the last three years? none. i remember working back with jimmy carter as a speechwriter. he would talk about world commodity markets, world oil prices and the public looks i don't care, you blew it. going on offense again, this romney thing, you had a great word, he suffers from affluenza, he is rich. haven't we had successful presidents born rich, f.d.r. and john f. kennedy. >> we have. the key thing and the story i wrote last week, there is a tag line that they were considering using in chicago they may still use on romney. he has never been in it for you. what does that say? it says, it ties up he didn't create jobs at bain. he didn't create jobs in massachusetts. he has this problem of being a rich out of touch guy. he is in it for himself. you
obama is the president. he has to be the one that goes out to people and says i am starting to make it better. i know that you are still hurting. >> 2 1/2 years of actual -- the point is also, chris, on this, how many leaders have been re-elected in the west over the last three years? none. i remember working back with jimmy carter as a speechwriter. he would talk about world commodity markets, world oil prices and the public looks i don't care, you blew it. going on offense again, this...
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on obama's record. he's been saying that this president has failed. a rejoinder has to be able to say bin laden is dead and g.m. is alive. chris: that's a pretty good bumper sticker, isn't it? let me ask you, kasie, welcome to the show. you're with "the associated press." you cover romney all the time. i was reading that romney has what she just said. their campaign is prosecution. you tried it, you blew it. is that it? >> sure. that's absolutely what it is. like she said, the president has failed. she have been itching to run against this president and they keep getting bogged down, running thains their opponents in the g.o.p. primary. they're spending time trying to get delegates to beat santorum. chris: there was a negative attack on santorum. they can't put these guys away with that kind of negative campaign. why do they think they can put obama away with it? >> that's the big question. what they've had up to now is an overwhelming financial advantage on tv. chris: air superiority, to use a phrase. >> exactly. they've come in and beat up the other
on obama's record. he's been saying that this president has failed. a rejoinder has to be able to say bin laden is dead and g.m. is alive. chris: that's a pretty good bumper sticker, isn't it? let me ask you, kasie, welcome to the show. you're with "the associated press." you cover romney all the time. i was reading that romney has what she just said. their campaign is prosecution. you tried it, you blew it. is that it? >> sure. that's absolutely what it is. like she said, the...
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. >> the first lady of the united states, michelle obama. >> reporter: first lady my schill obama's rarkable path to the white house has now been traced back five generations, more than 150 years to a young girl who was a slave in south carolina. in documents, she's described only as the negro girl, melvinia. her original slave owner died in the 1850s and willed melvinia, valued at $475, to family in georgia. there, a white man, his name lost to history, fathered melvinia's first child, michelle obama's great, great, grandfather. >> her story really resonates with a lot of families. she always had an inkling, and her family always had an inkling that there was a white ancestor somewhere. >> reporter: the new york times" documented how melvinia's first born, dolphus shields became a successful businessman in alabama. one of his grandsons, purnell shields, like so many african-americans in the south, moved to chicago, a migration documented by the influential black newspaper "the chicago defender." >> it made chicago the center of the african-american community in the united states. >> reporte
. >> the first lady of the united states, michelle obama. >> reporter: first lady my schill obama's rarkable path to the white house has now been traced back five generations, more than 150 years to a young girl who was a slave in south carolina. in documents, she's described only as the negro girl, melvinia. her original slave owner died in the 1850s and willed melvinia, valued at $475, to family in georgia. there, a white man, his name lost to history, fathered melvinia's first...
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obama runs on what? put it to the matthews' meter, our regulars, gloria, including you and other people here, in next year's campaign, will president obama have the image, the one he's established as the guy who stood above the people on the high ground up there. interviews say yes, including all four of you. gloria, to lead the pack here, everybody agrees he came out above the fight. >> he does come out above the fight but you have to play the results. i think it all goes back to what john is saying, which is this has been diversionarry for the president. he wants to be talking about creating jobs and people will look at this in terms of did he leave us out of that. chris: you said this is into next year's election. >> i think depending on where the economy is, sure. chris: the high ground isn't necessarily a great place. people want a president who's down in the muck fighting for jobs for them and this has been so totally off the table, and then it's really -- chris: joe, you're a complicated fellow he
obama runs on what? put it to the matthews' meter, our regulars, gloria, including you and other people here, in next year's campaign, will president obama have the image, the one he's established as the guy who stood above the people on the high ground up there. interviews say yes, including all four of you. gloria, to lead the pack here, everybody agrees he came out above the fight. >> he does come out above the fight but you have to play the results. i think it all goes back to what...
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s fire and ems department could have put the health of president and obama and the first lady at risk. we have learned the ambulance scheduled to accompany president obama, broke down, which led to multiple problems. >> as president obama travels to and from the white house, the number one concern of his motorcade is keeping the president safe. one critical constant is a d.c. fire zms ambulance, typically medic one, trailing behind in the event of a medical emergency. but on august 8th as the president and first lady were leaving to celebrate mr. obama's 50 second birthday, medic one ran out of gas. >> fire officials concerned that the vehicle was towed to apparatus division and is now being repaired off site. the crew should have but did not fill up the tank thatdy. sources say the bigger issue is the fuel gauge had been broken for months and had not been repaired. >> why did it run out? was it a faulty gas gauge. how long did they know. >> for months d.c. councilman has been critical of the department for not quickly addressing a fleet in disrepair. >> this is just an example that h
s fire and ems department could have put the health of president and obama and the first lady at risk. we have learned the ambulance scheduled to accompany president obama, broke down, which led to multiple problems. >> as president obama travels to and from the white house, the number one concern of his motorcade is keeping the president safe. one critical constant is a d.c. fire zms ambulance, typically medic one, trailing behind in the event of a medical emergency. but on august 8th as...
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so maybe no surprise that naseem and president obama already are -- romney and president obama are already sparring with each other. romney is trying to make the obama team nervous by calling them nervous. >> mitt romney. >> governor romney. >> governor romney. >> mitt romney. >> governor romney. >> didn't know were you a spokesperson for mitt romney. chris: those romney madmen who he cooked up those ads, obsession. the obama crowd may not be obsessed at least not yet but they're definitely already focused on romney. and they confess they're disappointed that romney's emerging from the primaries so unbloodied. by his opponents. >> i don't know that his positions have been scrutinized that carefully. i know governor perry has made some halting efforts to do that in these debates. but he hasn't exactly got -- gotten the gun out of the holster. chris: rough talk. gun out of the holster. but they seem to be bugged and you heard it from axelrod talking to reporters that nobody has done any damage to romney in all these fights. >> well, give romney credit and his campaign credit. he took a page
so maybe no surprise that naseem and president obama already are -- romney and president obama are already sparring with each other. romney is trying to make the obama team nervous by calling them nervous. >> mitt romney. >> governor romney. >> governor romney. >> mitt romney. >> governor romney. >> didn't know were you a spokesperson for mitt romney. chris: those romney madmen who he cooked up those ads, obsession. the obama crowd may not be obsessed at...
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in his eulogy today, president obama made reference to that. he said of ted kennedy, he was the product of a time when adverse adversaries still saw each other as patriots. there was a fleeting reference to that, as well of ted kennedy. here comes the motorcade now across the bridge into the nation's capital. >> these are the rituals in the capitol, public servant being honored for years of service, nation representing the state of massachusetts, in this case. the youngest memr of a very robust client, great wealth and privilege from the state of massachusetts, the commonwealth as it's known, who came to washington at the age of 30, to fill the unexpired term of his brother, the president of the united states, and stay for 47 years. these are the kinds of rituals normally reserved for presidents of the united states. rarely do you see a united states senator get this kind of response from not just across party lines, but the public as well, in washington and certainly in his home state here in massachusetts, where he was a great champion of eve
in his eulogy today, president obama made reference to that. he said of ted kennedy, he was the product of a time when adverse adversaries still saw each other as patriots. there was a fleeting reference to that, as well of ted kennedy. here comes the motorcade now across the bridge into the nation's capital. >> these are the rituals in the capitol, public servant being honored for years of service, nation representing the state of massachusetts, in this case. the youngest memr of a very...
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barack obama ran ahead of schedule. if you run earlier than everybody says you should run, you win. >> but when your name is bush, the timetable is different. and especially -- he can appeal to the tea party but some time has to elapse between the bushes running i would think. chris: but confuse jeb with george w. after you met the guy for five minutes? >> in 2008 we talked about the dynasties. nobody would confuse hillary and bill clinton. chris: are brothers as tight as married people? >> obama has already run against a bush once in 2008. and i think he would win again. and i think jeb knows that. chris: -- >> i don't think the establishment is hungry as it is for an attractive man who can unite the party will convince jeb bush to move up his timetable. 2012, he thinks, and i think he's right. chris: there you are. is that a statement he doesn't think they'll win and that's why he's not running? >> right now obama is strong much that this would be a suicide mission. chris: does he read it that way? jeb bush as smart a
barack obama ran ahead of schedule. if you run earlier than everybody says you should run, you win. >> but when your name is bush, the timetable is different. and especially -- he can appeal to the tea party but some time has to elapse between the bushes running i would think. chris: but confuse jeb with george w. after you met the guy for five minutes? >> in 2008 we talked about the dynasties. nobody would confuse hillary and bill clinton. chris: are brothers as tight as married...
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obama becoming emotional when she talked directly to young people. >> be focused. be determined. be be empowered. empower yourselves with a good education. lead by example with hope. never fear. and know that i rooting for you and working to support you for the rest of my life. being your first lady has been the greatest honor of my life and i hope i've made you proud. >> mr. and mrs. obama plan to remain in washington until their youngest daughter finishes high school here. >> no doubt she made a lot of people proud. >>> if you picked up a "washington post" express yesterday you may have noticed something not quite right with the cover. the cover story is about the women's march on washington, except well that's not the symbol for women. now, readers were quick to point out the mistake and the post express apologized for the error. the march takes place the day after the inauguration. >>> a $30 toll to go about 15 tonight we've learned that the drivers impacted by that price surge may get a break. this happened last night on the beltway in virginia. the operator of the toll lane
obama becoming emotional when she talked directly to young people. >> be focused. be determined. be be empowered. empower yourselves with a good education. lead by example with hope. never fear. and know that i rooting for you and working to support you for the rest of my life. being your first lady has been the greatest honor of my life and i hope i've made you proud. >> mr. and mrs. obama plan to remain in washington until their youngest daughter finishes high school here....
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>> you had already had 15 months of hillary clinton and barack obama. you had the john edwards implosion. you had mccain's incredible collapse in 2007 and rebirth to we claim in 2008. these were people who were not normal politicians. they weren't interesting for politics. like john kerry is interesting for politics. these are really interesting people who are interesting to a wide swath of americans. they were celebrities. all of them you thought these people were household names. there was a lot of drama. these were bigger than life figures. that spells hollywood to me. >> isn't it interesting that a dramatic tale, a tale in 2008 is not about the clinton/obama showdown but about sarah palin. why is she the dramatic centerpiece do you think? >> really because of production and the necessity of telling a story well and having the character development that the story demanded in two hours. hbo wanted to make a two-hour movie. they tried for a long time, many months to write a script about clinton and obama in that narrative and two years opposed to 60 da
>> you had already had 15 months of hillary clinton and barack obama. you had the john edwards implosion. you had mccain's incredible collapse in 2007 and rebirth to we claim in 2008. these were people who were not normal politicians. they weren't interesting for politics. like john kerry is interesting for politics. these are really interesting people who are interesting to a wide swath of americans. they were celebrities. all of them you thought these people were household names. there...
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that obama's a push over. the passing of health care that was supposed to be done until last august and slipped all the way until now. and the white house is chicago style very stuff. here's john boehner making this point . >> this chicago style politics is shutting down politics and demonizing. chris: how can he be both the problem? >> sure. president obama and the white house, may have a problem with that they've set themselves up. for instance, they've come out and saying that we're the most open white house. we're very open. we're releasing these visitor logs. blah, blah, blah, and the reality is, it's not that open. you saw what happened late last year when desiree rogers would not go and testify on cop to hill. you know there are so many different times where the white house has not been that open that's a storyline that could actually arm them. chris: we'll be out of gitmo. we'll be out of this by august. >> particularly saying he would get the health care plan passed by august. we heard this when jack
that obama's a push over. the passing of health care that was supposed to be done until last august and slipped all the way until now. and the white house is chicago style very stuff. here's john boehner making this point . >> this chicago style politics is shutting down politics and demonizing. chris: how can he be both the problem? >> sure. president obama and the white house, may have a problem with that they've set themselves up. for instance, they've come out and saying that...
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. >>> a secret weapon for president obama tonight. why his wife, the first lady is suddenly everywhere. >>> and to die for. a restaurant where the house special is an 8,000-calorie burger. at that point, why not have fries with that? at that point, why not have fries with that? "nightly news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. we begin tonight with a strange and sad story out of ohio. it started with a local man known as something of an eccentric and a criminal who had served time in prison. he kept a wild animal preserve on his property. big exotic animals, the kind we see in zoos, until last night when he released the animals and took his own life. police responding in the dark to protect the families in the area had no choice but to draw their weapons and bring down the animals. those still on the loose today were tranquilized, taken away. the 48 dead animals include 18 endangered bengal tigers and there are only about 2,500 in the world. tonight in zanesville, it's mostly the scene of a ter
. >>> a secret weapon for president obama tonight. why his wife, the first lady is suddenly everywhere. >>> and to die for. a restaurant where the house special is an 8,000-calorie burger. at that point, why not have fries with that? at that point, why not have fries with that? "nightly news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. we begin tonight with a strange and sad story out of ohio. it started with a local man known...
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so i think that the obama approach is better. it is more likely to produce broad based prosperity than romney's and i think that people will see that unless they believe that somehow magically somebody could have brought us back to full employment in four years. i just don't believe it could have happened. >> schieffer: mr. romney released his income taxes for last year this week. do you think he has given enough information? >> well, it would be interesting to know, you know, i think some people just -- i think john mccain only gave two years but he did make senate reports before that. i think we gave ten years or something like that. that is really up to voters. they can decide. but in the last two years he wouldn't have any ordinary income, which would mean that most of his income would be capital gains as it is and they would be taxed at 15 percent which is what the law is, and gave a lot to charity which is commendable, including to his church which is commendable, but it would be interesting i think for the american people
so i think that the obama approach is better. it is more likely to produce broad based prosperity than romney's and i think that people will see that unless they believe that somehow magically somebody could have brought us back to full employment in four years. i just don't believe it could have happened. >> schieffer: mr. romney released his income taxes for last year this week. do you think he has given enough information? >> well, it would be interesting to know, you know, i...
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barack obama. one conservative talk show host considers the citizenship issue frivolous. >> we are just right now getting real traction on some of the issues regarding president obama, his expansion of government, his spending, this, this is resonating with the american people. this is a terrible distraction. it makes us look crazy and angry and fringy and irresponsible. >> reporter: similar questions have dged other presidential candidates. john mccain, born in the panama canal zone. barry goldwater born in arizona whent was a territory. and mitt romney's father, george, born in mexico. and in 1881, when chester a. arthur became president, his political opponents questioned whether he was actually born in vermont or somewhat further north in canada. brian. >> so many conspiracy theories, so little time. pete williams in our washington bureau tonight. thank you for that. when our broadcast continues along the way this wednesday night, they're supposed to help smokers quit. but now there is the ques
barack obama. one conservative talk show host considers the citizenship issue frivolous. >> we are just right now getting real traction on some of the issues regarding president obama, his expansion of government, his spending, this, this is resonating with the american people. this is a terrible distraction. it makes us look crazy and angry and fringy and irresponsible. >> reporter: similar questions have dged other presidential candidates. john mccain, born in the panama canal...
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michelle obama's visit coincides with his trip to the u.s. following a developing story out of iti, there are reports that john -- jean-claude "baby doc" duvalier was forced into exile during an uprising, he h been living in france th >>> the interior minister said the victims were in a motized rick saw when it was struck. women and childre are among the dead. details wereot immiately available. > a lawsu on the behalf of gullett muhammad. he was put on the no-fly list without any explanation. he was detailed after trying to renew his visa at kuwait airport. muhammad lives in alexandria. >> restaurants in the district could soon be held more accountable for the food ty serve. making restaurants posttheir health department certificates in the front windows. >> i los angeles, after that did this, there was a reduction in food bour illnesses. >> the sam bill was voted down by a council committee last year >> nick young may be having a break-out year on the court, apparently, he is better than iving the lanehan just driving. >> we were in his ren
michelle obama's visit coincides with his trip to the u.s. following a developing story out of iti, there are reports that john -- jean-claude "baby doc" duvalier was forced into exile during an uprising, he h been living in france th >>> the interior minister said the victims were in a motized rick saw when it was struck. women and childre are among the dead. details wereot immiately available. > a lawsu on the behalf of gullett muhammad. he was put on the no-fly list...
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through this past wednesday, president obama has held nine major meetings onhe matr. while he has tossed and turned over the war, at least that decision is up to him alone. not so health care. democrats are caught in the great civil war on how to end that battle. nancy pelosi found a three-vote margin to pass the bill out of the house. there is no clear way to the 60 votes they need in the senate. all these months and no clear path to obama's prime goal for the year. mike, that's the question. how is he doing it? >> you get out the old recipe for passing unprecedented legislation, prayer, good luck charms, a visitation by bill clinton this week to rally the troops and old fashioned political muscle applied inside the democratic party to get this thing passed. it's a hard lift. lots of tests to come. the plan now is to get it through the senate by christmas so they can conference it possibly by state of the union. chris: did the president make a mistake by letting the congress over all these months, you do it, i'll cheerlead. was that a mistake? >> you look back at the
through this past wednesday, president obama has held nine major meetings onhe matr. while he has tossed and turned over the war, at least that decision is up to him alone. not so health care. democrats are caught in the great civil war on how to end that battle. nancy pelosi found a three-vote margin to pass the bill out of the house. there is no clear way to the 60 votes they need in the senate. all these months and no clear path to obama's prime goal for the year. mike, that's the question....
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[laughter] will they run away from president obama? >> in swing districts, anything but the safest democrat seats, democrats will run away from president obama. >> stephanie running for re-election in south dakota already with an ad about how she voted against health care. i think that's a yes. >> you won't see the president out on the campaign trail very much. >> yeah, i think they're going to run away from him. chris: getting voters to turn out is one of the classic art forms in american politics. in the 1960 kennedy-nixon campaign, both side tried to time their final barnstorming trips to excite the troops. they told kennedy to hold off the chicago stop until the end. look at how all the trade unions showed up at the last weekend. same story on the nixon side. he brought president eisenhower to new york the last wednesday before the election. there they are in harold's square, macy's right before the election day. that same year lyndon johnson used the old-fashioned whistle stop to rally the rural stop. >> god bless you, most democr
[laughter] will they run away from president obama? >> in swing districts, anything but the safest democrat seats, democrats will run away from president obama. >> stephanie running for re-election in south dakota already with an ad about how she voted against health care. i think that's a yes. >> you won't see the president out on the campaign trail very much. >> yeah, i think they're going to run away from him. chris: getting voters to turn out is one of the classic...
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>> this is a good dynamic for barack obama. after republicans control the house now gives him a foil. we saw it before last year when he went and met with republicans -- chris: meaning what? >> he can fight with them. he can show fire in a way that he has not shown it. chris: wait a minute. what does tt do to get something done? >> you're talking about trying to build up publicpouprt for these things. i disagree that the fiscal commission -- it was much more successful with that. i totally disagree that the momentum is not there on capitol hill. the problem that both parties have to do is the only wa to get it done is not necessarily work together. they have shown they can do that. parties have to so anger their baseto get to where they need to be. that is the equation. chris: is there a possible grand storm of possibility where the president says to the tea party people, you know, i have been listening to you people out there. yo u have got some good arguments. >> i do think people with paul ryan and john boehner. thewant to g
>> this is a good dynamic for barack obama. after republicans control the house now gives him a foil. we saw it before last year when he went and met with republicans -- chris: meaning what? >> he can fight with them. he can show fire in a way that he has not shown it. chris: wait a minute. what does tt do to get something done? >> you're talking about trying to build up publicpouprt for these things. i disagree that the fiscal commission -- it was much more successful with...
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obama is going small ball. where he's saying -- look, here are the particular things that are going to help you. they're stuck with the philosophy. >> whyre republicans talking about the economy right now? it's clear they think this is a winner for them and it could be, but the place where barack obama is still perhaps the most vulnerable is on the economy and jobs and why don't they remind people on that. chris: it's because they think they can win this big argument that socialism is coming, armageddon is coming, and fear is the biggest -- >> if this bill is socialism, then warren buffett is karl marx. it's not sexism. -- it's not socialism. it's a big gigantic tweaking of a huge part of the economy. it's not socialism. if they call it that, they're going to lose. chris: both parties are looking at this differently. it seems like the democrats do feel good now. i was looking at nancy pelosi, the speaker, she looks really happy. you had a briefing with her this week. she looks totally different. the president l
obama is going small ball. where he's saying -- look, here are the particular things that are going to help you. they're stuck with the philosophy. >> whyre republicans talking about the economy right now? it's clear they think this is a winner for them and it could be, but the place where barack obama is still perhaps the most vulnerable is on the economy and jobs and why don't they remind people on that. chris: it's because they think they can win this big argument that socialism is...
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all right, tomorrow marks six months in office for president obama. john harwood, this is do or die time, as i've been saying on health care reform, and to me, the biggest issue, and you heard it addressed with secretary sebelius, is whether or not the number one goal of containing costs over time will be achieved. the cbo said this week, congressional budget office said not with the plans you've got in congress so far. how can the president stand behind these plans? >> well i think you'll sea adjustments in the plans. you've seen a ramped up effort to get the medpac idea, independent commission to say no, taking place in the system and i think you've got a live conversation ongoing within the administration, between the two parties on capitol hill about whether, in fact, you ultimately finance part of this package by taxing health care benefits which is one proposal that would raise revenue and could bend the cost curve. health economists agree on that. it's politically touchy. labor unions are against it. are the democrats going to go there and try
all right, tomorrow marks six months in office for president obama. john harwood, this is do or die time, as i've been saying on health care reform, and to me, the biggest issue, and you heard it addressed with secretary sebelius, is whether or not the number one goal of containing costs over time will be achieved. the cbo said this week, congressional budget office said not with the plans you've got in congress so far. how can the president stand behind these plans? >> well i think...
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this actually you know recently david plouffe, the architect really of the obama -- the two obama campaigns, he said when you do a campaign for 60% or 70% of the country, you make the base upset. this is a challenge for both democrats and republicans. >> very much so. >> you can't do this can you? >> i think republicans ought to try. but if she goes for the national security vote by advocating one of my chapters 5%. commit to spending 5% of the nation's budget gdp on defense, she'll win back those democrats who left the democratic party to go into the reagan coalition. if she runs for a consistent purpose -- >> scoop jackson democrats. >> they still exist. they're still around. if she did that but boy would tom stier be mad at her if she embraces the advice i give her on fracking. >> i'm curious what you think because i feel like the conservative movement -- the democratic party lurches back and forth sometimes from being interest group driven and then if they lose then they say, no no no no we've got to be big again. obama tried to be larger than that clinton '92. the republican party seem
this actually you know recently david plouffe, the architect really of the obama -- the two obama campaigns, he said when you do a campaign for 60% or 70% of the country, you make the base upset. this is a challenge for both democrats and republicans. >> very much so. >> you can't do this can you? >> i think republicans ought to try. but if she goes for the national security vote by advocating one of my chapters 5%. commit to spending 5% of the nation's budget gdp on defense,...
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a pitched battle for the senate seat once held by president obama. carol mari of our nbc station wmaq standing by in chicago with that. hey, carol. >> reporter: hello, brian. late polls give republican congressman mark kirk a razor thin edge over alexi giannoulias in this battle for the obama senate seat. the president himself came here to rev up s troops, but in his own home state, obama's approval rating is just 46%. this race has been nasty and 's been embarrassing. kirk has had to apologize fo embellishing his military record. giannoulias' bank failed and there was loans to mobsters. there was conviction of a foer democratic governor. the mood of voter here in illinois, brian, sour. >> sounds like you're describg illinois politics. carol, thanks. we'll check in with you again tomorrow night as we go east. another very tight contest we're watching closely. the senate race in penylvania. our own ron allein philadelphia tonight. ron, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, to you, ban. the first lady michelle obama is here on the campus of the univ
a pitched battle for the senate seat once held by president obama. carol mari of our nbc station wmaq standing by in chicago with that. hey, carol. >> reporter: hello, brian. late polls give republican congressman mark kirk a razor thin edge over alexi giannoulias in this battle for the obama senate seat. the president himself came here to rev up s troops, but in his own home state, obama's approval rating is just 46%. this race has been nasty and 's been embarrassing. kirk has had to...
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forces to support the rebels in syria. >>> domestically another piece of president obama's signature health care law went into effect today and includes preventative care for as many as 47 million women including access to contraceptives at no charge and by going into effect started the health care fight all over again. nbc's kelly o'donnell has the story. >> reporter: from free birth control to annual check ups millions of american women with private health insurance could begin to save money and that means no out of pocket co pays for many preventive services. at boston's women's hospital dr. paula johnson says this gives women an incentive to get care. >> this is a cost saving measure for women and for their families and will make preventive care far more accessible. >> reporter: new policies would cover at no out of pocket costs, yearly preventive checkups including prenatal, breast exams, cancer and diabetes screening, contraception, domestic violence screening. women can no longer be charged more than men for the same insurance plan. >> no woman should have to choose between se
forces to support the rebels in syria. >>> domestically another piece of president obama's signature health care law went into effect today and includes preventative care for as many as 47 million women including access to contraceptives at no charge and by going into effect started the health care fight all over again. nbc's kelly o'donnell has the story. >> reporter: from free birth control to annual check ups millions of american women with private health insurance could begin...
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harry reid said to president obama, we don't want the obama care. i had an exchange with dick durbin, who argued we should stick the american people in coach. i think his own analogy shows what is wrong with this system, at a minimum, members of congress shouldn't be treated better than the american people, and should he be willing to compromise he would agree what the house has done to delay all of this saying it is not ready for prime time. it is not working, and we'll treat the american people at least as well as the others. >> you are talking about democrats, it is hard for them to get a word in edge wise, because there are members of your party who are so critical of what you have done and how you have done it. you have colleagues who accused you of putting on a show. congressman peter king said you're a fraud, lying to the base. george will, who has been a conservative columnist for "the washington post," who has been great, supportive of you in the past. but he wrote this past week, and i want you to respond. those people who deceive others f
harry reid said to president obama, we don't want the obama care. i had an exchange with dick durbin, who argued we should stick the american people in coach. i think his own analogy shows what is wrong with this system, at a minimum, members of congress shouldn't be treated better than the american people, and should he be willing to compromise he would agree what the house has done to delay all of this saying it is not ready for prime time. it is not working, and we'll treat the american...